john reddinger http://www.johnreddinger.com illustration Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:42:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 painting process http://www.johnreddinger.com/?p=119 http://www.johnreddinger.com/?p=119#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:40:24 +0000 john http://www.johnreddinger.com/?p=119 Here’s a painting I did recently, inspired by Italo Calvino’s short story The Adventure of a Nearsighted Man. Calvino is a great author to inspire paintings; his stories are very rich and vivid, and yet he never gets bogged down in detail.

The first thumbnail below is my initial sketch, and the next one is the layer of acrylics I put down to begin. To paint the sky, I cut a mask out of cardstock and carefully rubbed the color on with a paper towel.

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The rest was drawn on with greyscale markers and india ink.

Finished image below:

in-the-city

]]> http://www.johnreddinger.com/?feed=rss2&p=119 0 Miyazaki sketch http://www.johnreddinger.com/?p=104 http://www.johnreddinger.com/?p=104#comments Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:13:03 +0000 john http://www.johnreddinger.com/?p=104 A portrait of filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki from my sketchbook.

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